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Anthropology and development : culture, morality and politics in a globalised world
"In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to those who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from an...
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2013
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| 020 | |a 9780521184724 (paperback) | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Crewe, Emma, | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Anthropology and development : |b culture, morality and politics in a globalised world |
| 264 | 1 | |a Cambridge : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2013 | |
| 300 | |a PB |c xi,256p.incl.index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: hope and despair; 2. Anthropologists engaged; 3. The social and political organisation of aid and development; 4. The elusive poor; 5. Human rights and cultural fantasies; 6. Hierarchies of knowledge; 7. The moralities of production and exchange; 8. The politics of policy and practice; 9. Imagining the future; Appendix 1. Challenging questions arising from this book. | |
| 520 | |a "In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to those who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This essential textbook reveals anthropologists' often surprising findings and details ethnographic case studies on the cultures of development. The authors use a fertile literature to examine the socio-political organisation of aid communities, agencies and networks as well as the judgements they make about each other. Exploring the spaces between policy and practice, success and failure, the future and the past, this book provides a rounded understanding of development work that suggests new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 600 | |2 Axelby, Richard |9 1 | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Applied anthropology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political anthropology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Anthropological ethics. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Anthropology | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Culture | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Axelby, Richard. | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Cover image |u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/05921/cover/9781107005921.jpg |
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